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Show Evidently Had Not j Absorbed "Business" A story is beinj told of the engagement engage-ment of an additional chorus man fof the musical production, "Rose Marie," at Drury Lane theater. The male chorus in the show are mainly mounted pcilce and frontiersmen, frontiers-men, for the action of "Rose Marie" takes place in northwest Canada. Out of the two hundred applicants for the position one was selected because be-cause of his excellent voice. He was duly brought before the "powers that be," and promptly turned down as looking "nothing like the part." The producer was keen to have him and made inquiries as to his previous stage experience. Imagine his surprise when the man replied, "I haven't done much acting lately I've spent my last five years In the Canadian Northwest Mounted police !" Vancouver Province. |